An improved injector bunching geometry for ATLAS

The bunching system of the ATLAS positive ion injector (PII) has been improved by relocating the harmonic buncher to a point significantly closer to the second stage sine-wave buncher and the injector LINAC. The longitudinal optics design has also been modified and now employs a virtual waist from the harmonic buncher feeding the second stage sine-wave buncher. This geometry improves the handling of space charge for high-current beams, significantly increases the capture fraction into the primary rf bucket and reduces the capture fraction of the unwanted parasitic rf bucket. Total capture and transport through the PII has been demonstrated as high as 80% of the injected dc beam while the population of the parasitic, unwanted rf bucket is typically less than 3% of the total transported beam. To remove this small residual parasitic component a new traveling-wave transmission-line chopper has been developed reducing both transverse and longitudinal emittance growth from the chopping process. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract W-31-109-ENG-38.     

On the differentiability of depth distribution function of deposited energy, momentum and ion range

Based on the translational invariance of a medium,a new theorem has been proposed and proved rigorously:the depth distributions of the deposited energy,momentum and ion range must be infinitely differentiable functions in amorphous or polycrystalline infinite targets by ion bombardment,if these functions exist.The origin of the “discontinuity”,derived by Dr Glazov in 1995 in J.Phys.:Condens.Matter 7 6365,has been analysed in detail.For the power cross section,neglecting electronic stopping,the linear transport equations determining the depth distribution functions of the deposited energy and monentum (by taking the threshold enerkgy into account )have been solved asymptotically.An important formula derived by Dr Glazov has been confirmed and generalized.The results agree with the new theorem.     

Shallow surface etching of organic and inorganic compounds by electrospray droplet impact

The electrospray droplet impact (EDI) was applied to bradykinin, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), SiO₂/Si, and indium phosphide (InP). It was found that bradykinin deposited on the stainless steel substrate was ionized/desorbed without the accumulation of radiation products. The film thickness desorbed by a single collisional event was found to be less than 10 monolayers. In the EDI mass spectra for PET, several fragment ions were observed but the XPS spectra did not change with prolonged cluster irradiation. The etching rate for SiO₂ by EDI was measured to be ∼0.2 nm/min. The surface roughness of InP etched by EDI was found to be one order of magnitude smaller than that etched by 3 keV Ar⁺ for about the same etching depths. EDI is capable of shallow surface etching with little damage left on the etched surface.     

The double M-effect induced by noble gases activated with negative ions

The M-effect (monochromatization-effect) is a powerful tool which can give high intensity monochromatic spectra with a certain wavelength depending on the type of used gas mixtures to generate plasma state. The effect consists in the emission of a single spectral line of plasmas ignited in certain gas mixtures. The main condition to obtain the M effect is the presence of an electropositive and an electronegative gas mixture. For example, in the case of Ne+H₂ monochrome radiation was obtained, the wavelength of Ne being 585.3 nm (1s²–2p⁵). In this paper we prove the general character of this effect, i.e. if the optical emission spectra reduced to nearly one line can be observed also in other gas mixture discharges, for example in the case of one electronegative gas and two electropositive gases. Different other mixtures, as Xe+Ne+H₂ and Xe+Ar+H₂ have been studied. In all these cases, the M-effect appeared without doubt.     

A pulsed EPR method to determine distances between paramagnetic centers with strong spectral anisotropy and radicals: The dead-time free RIDME sequence

Methods to determine distances between paramagnetic metal centers and radicals are scarce. This is unfortunate because paramagnetic metal centers are frequent in biological systems and so far have not been employed much as distance markers. Successful pulse sequences that directly target the dipolar interactions cannot be applied to paramagnetic metal centers with fast relaxation rates and large g-anisotropy, if no echos can be detected and the excitation bandwidth is not sufficient to cover a sufficiently large part of the spectrum. The RIDME method Kulik et al. (2002) [20] circumvents this problem by making use of the T₁-induced spin-flip of the transition-metal ion. Designed to measure distance between such a fast relaxing metal center and a radical, it suffers from a dead time problem. We show that this is severe because the anisotropy of the metal center broadens the dipolar curves, which therefore, only can be analyzed if the full curve is known. Here, we introduce five-pulse RIDME (5p-RIDME) that is intrinsically dead-time free. Proper functioning of the sequence is demonstrated on a nitroxide biradical. The distance between a low-spin Fe(III) center and a spin label in spin-labeled cytochrome f shows the complete dipolar trace of a transition-metal ion center and a spin label, yielding the distance expected from the structure.     

He离子注入的尖晶石中Au纳米颗粒的合成研究

利用20 keV的He离子注入表面蒸镀了Au薄膜的尖晶石（MgAl2O4）样品, 随后对注入样品进行了退火处理。 在紫外可见光谱上观察到了由于金属纳米颗粒的存在而引起的较强的表面等离子体共振吸收峰, 提供了材料中金属纳米颗粒形成的光谱证据。 并对形成的Au纳米颗粒的尺寸随退火温度以及He注入剂量的变化进行了研究。 Spinel deposited with a thin Au film was implanted with helium ions, and annealed in vacuum condition subsequently. The surface Plasmon resonance absorbance peak due to the existence of metallic nanoparticles in the dielectric matrix was observed on the Ultraviolet Visible Spectrometry, indicating the formation of metallic nanoparticles in spinel. The dependence of Au particles size with annealing temperature and implantation doses was also investigated.     

Attaching tweezers like ionophore to a proton crane: theoretical design of new tautomeric sensors

ABSTRACT

The tautomeric optical sensors based on 4-(phenyldiazenyl)naphthalen-1-ol exist in their pure enol tautomeric form as free ligands, while the addition of metal ion fully shifts the equilibrium towards the keto tautomer allowing a red shift in the measured absorbance. This effect is achieved when a side ionophore group is connected to a tautomeric backbone by a spacer in a way that stabilizes the enol form via hydrogen boding. When the ionophore captures the metal ion the keto form is stabilized due to C─O tautomeric group participation in the complex. In the current study, we model theoretically the effect of symmetric tweezer like ionophores (RCOXCOR, where X, being CH or N, is the linker to the tautomeric backbone) on the tautomeric state and complexation ability of 4-(phenyldiazenyl)naphthalen-1-ol containing ligands. It was found that enol form stabilisation is achieved when R?=?NMe₂, independing on the linker. Both ligands are unsuitable for capturing alkali metal ions. The calculations predict that the complexation with alkali earth metal ions could lead to a full shift of the tautomeric equilibrium towards keto tautomer.     

Reviews

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Biological Effects of Radiations Daniel S. Grosch Blaisdell Publishing Co., New York, 1965, 293 pages. $3.50

Ion Bombardment of Solids G. Carter and J. S. Colligon American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1968, 446 pages. $40.00     

Separation of Carrier Free Manganese-54 and Iron-59 Using Reversed Phase Partition Chromatography

Carrier free radioactive ⁵⁴Mn and ⁵⁹Fe enjoy favoured position in industrial, agricultural and medical applications [1]. The main methods used for their isolation from suitable irradiated targets are mainly based on solvent extraction [2] or ion exchange [3].